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From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon by VERNE, Jules

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Title
From the Earth to the Moon
Author
VERNE, Jules
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. First Obtainable American Edition - Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon and A Trip Round It' VERNE, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon. Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And A Trip Round It. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier... and Eleanor E. King. With eighty full page illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. First American illustrated edition, and the first obtainable American edition of one of Verne's most celebrated works, combining De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and its sequel Autour de la Lune (1870). Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 197 x 130 mm). viii, [1]-323, [1, blank] pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements. With 80 inserted plates by Bayard, de Montaut, and de Neuville (including the frontispiece with tissue guard). Verso of title page with ad for single Verne title: "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" priced at $2.00. Light stain in blank inner margin of pp. 40/41 caused by small strip of brown paper. Publisher's beveled-edge, horizontally-ribbed red-orange cloth, front cover and spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers. George W. Alexander, New York, binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Contemporary pencil inscription dated "Jan 1 1874" on recto of front blank. Very light wear at spine tips (three tiny tears at crown), otherwise an excellent, near fine copy. A lovely survival of a major Verne title in striking American trade cloth. In addition to its importance as a landmark of nineteenth-century science fiction, the narrative contains extraordinary anticipations of later spaceflight, including uncanny parallels to the Apollo program. The Scribner, Armstrong edition is the first illustrated American edition and the first obtainable in commerce, the true first (Newark Printing and Publishing Company, 1869, in wrappers) surviving in only one known copy (Library of Congress). This translation by Mercier and King, originally prepared for Sampson Low in London, was slightly revised for American publication. In From the Earth to the Moon... and A trip Round It, Jules Verne imagines the bold scheme of the Baltimore Gun Club to launch a projectile to the moon. Led by the visionary Impey Barbicane, the club constructs a massive space gun in Florida and recruits adventurous companions - Captain Nicholl and the French traveler Michel Ardan - for the unprecedented voyage. The narrative blends scientific speculation with high-spirited adventure, dramatizing the technical challenges of space travel while satirizing post-Civil War American enthusiasm for grandiose engineering. Verne's imaginative leap, from orbital mechanics to the choice of Florida as the launch site, anticipated with uncanny accuracy many aspects of twentieth-century space exploration, making these works cornerstones of early science fiction. References: Edwards 3 & 7; Gondolo della Riva 10 & 14; Michaluk V003 & V007; Myers 26.
[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]

[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis] by [Missouri]. Turner, Ross Sterling

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Title
[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]
Author
[Missouri]. Turner, Ross Sterling
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[St. Louis], 1891. Very good.. Watercolor, 7.25 x 10 inches. Matted and framed in an early walnut frame with gilt accents. Contemporary notation on verso of image, "H.P. Wicker" of Boston. Image lightly but evenly toned. A charming, impressionistic watercolor scene of paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, painted in 1891. The foreground shows a long steam barge with a paddlewheel peeking up in the center. Several gangways connect the barge to the shore, with the hint of several figures on shore near the boat. A second steamer plies the river in the middleground, while the outline of the city looms in the background. The artist, Ross S. Turner (1847-1915) was a noted teacher and painter of watercolors, particularly of landscapes and marine scenes such as the present work. Based in the Boston area, he traveled widely in search of motifs and inspiration, painting extensively in Bermuda and the Caribbean, as well as Mexico and Central America, where he spent time in coastal areas capturing the spirit of the seaside communities he visited. He was a member of numerous important art associations including the American Watercolor Society, and he exhibited at a wide range of institutions and exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is represented in a number of important collections such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian, and the Denver Art Museum.
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HENRY MOORE: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1986 (COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES) by Various

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Seller: Commonwealth Books
Title
HENRY MOORE: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1986 (COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES)
Author
Various
Seller
Commonwealth Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
George Wittenborn / Lund Humphries / Zwemmer, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Mixed six volume set. 4to. Cloth. Volume 1, SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-48, 1968 revised fourth edition Wittenborn printing. Jacket with slight chipping to head and heel of spine and corners, and some light rubbing to edges. Volume 2, SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS 1949-1954, 1968 Wittenborn printing. Jacket with wrinkling and slight chipping to head and heel of spine, and light soiling. Boards with light wear to edges. Volume 3, SCULPTURE 1955-64, 1965 Lund Humphries first edition. Small closed tear to jacket at head of spine, light shelfwear. Volume 4, SCULPTURE 1964-73, 1977 Lund Humphries first edition. Jacket with a quarter-inch chip at head of spine, repaired with clear plastic tape, and lightly sun-faded at spine. Light rubbing to board edges. Volume 5, SCULPTURE 1974-80, 1983 Lund Humphries first edition. Light sunning to jacket at spine and edges. Volume 6, SCULPTURE 1980-86, 1999 Lund Humprhries revised edition. Superficial shelfwear. All volumes extensively illustrated in b/w. Very good in very good jackets with faults as noted.
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter by Carter, Jeff [Carter, Jimmy]

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Title
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter
Author
Carter, Jeff [Carter, Jimmy]
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780786468102
Condition
Fine
Description
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2012. First Edition. Illustrated Hardcover. Fine. Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter by Jeff Carter, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and their sons, Jeff Carter and Chip Carter.. Octavo, 216pp. Glossy illustrated hardcover, title printed on spine and front cover. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. This copy appears unread, in fine condition. The author of this book, Jeff Carter, is the third son of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. This copy is signed by President Jimmy Carter with a full signature, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Chip Carter and the author, Jeff Carter. A scarce work.
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Elements de la Theorie des Probabilites: Probabilites Discontinues, Probabilites Continues, Probabilites des Causes by Borel, Emile

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Elements de la Theorie des Probabilites: Probabilites Discontinues, Probabilites Continues, Probabilites des Causes
Author
Borel, Emile
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann & Fils, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good+. Marbled paper over boards, backed in red morocco, gilt-stamped lettering and handwritten library number on spine; original printed wraps bound in; pp. vii, [1], 191, [1]. Boards and spine a little rubbed and scuffed; some discreet ex-library markings, otherwise internally clean. A rare original edition.
Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday

Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday by WILLIAMS, Jonathan (editor); Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Creeley (et al) (contributors)

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Title
Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan (editor); Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Creeley (et al) (contributors)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; [n.p.]; fold-out illustrated title page, colorful fold-out illustration, black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear with trace blue off-setting to rear wrapper; Very Good. Collection of verse and artwork includes contributions by Richard Hamilton, Christopher Middleton, and Jerome Rothenberg. [87520].
Esperanto in the School

Esperanto in the School by [AUXILIARY LANGUAGES] THE BRITISH ESPERANTO ASS'N

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Esperanto in the School
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[AUXILIARY LANGUAGES] THE BRITISH ESPERANTO ASS'N
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Lawrence: British Esperanto Association, N.d. [ca 1940]. Bifolium leaflet. Octavo (22cm); printed self-wrappers; (4pp). Mild edge-creasing; Very Good. Advocates the teaching of Esperanto from an early age, noting its pedagogical benefits including ease of acquirement, simplifying the teaching of grammar, training the logical faculty, broadening students' world outlook, etc.
The Barracks Thief
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The Barracks Thief by Wolff, Tobias

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Title
The Barracks Thief
Author
Wolff, Tobias
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780880010351
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Ecco Press, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. His 2nd book, a Vietnam War novel. Near Fine, small bump top edge front board and tiny rub bottom edge, in a Near Fine dustjacket, very small rubs at tips of flaps..
Bluebeard
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Bluebeard by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Bluebeard
Author
Vonnegut, Kurt
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780385333511
Condition
NEW
Description
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 318pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Illustrated throughout by Vonnegut. Bluebeard ranks with Vonnegut's most imaginative works. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who , at seventy-one, wants to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers him into telling his life story- and Vonnegut tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign by Wheeler, Richard

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Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
Author
Wheeler, Richard
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780517680216
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Fairfax Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x7x1. First edition. Jacket spine a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. viii, 371 pp. "Told through the words of participants and observers, both military and civilian, this book is an account of the events that followed George B. McClellan's appointment as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and his controversial Peninsula Campaign." Black and white illustrations and maps included.

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